Understanding Quotes - Page 21

• You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

  Noam Chomsky

  Struggle, Winning, Analysis

  Source: www.iww.org

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• I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Enough, Ifs

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Going out in the field, it's always enlightening to see what's working and what's not and to sit down and talk - I was with young girls in south Africa - understanding why our tools for prevention aren't being adopted, and what way may need to invent to help protect them.

  Bill Gates

  Girl, Needs, Going Out

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.

  Madeleine Albright

  People, Political, Care

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.

  Al Sharpton

  Agreement, Community, Police

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical mass of understanding of the issues.

  Edward Snowden

  Issues, Political, Movement

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there are about 10-15 percent of people in the room, who say, "I've been trying to say this for years. Finally. I agree. Yes, yes, yes." I know there are about 15 percent of the people in the room who think I'm an idiot, who think I don't know what I'm talking about, who think I'm naive or I have oversimplified everything. The majority who are open to the ideal.

  Simon Sinek

  Thinking, Curves, Talking

  Source: advisor.tv

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• One contribution scientists can and should make is to be clear and explicit about the limits of scientific understanding, a matter that is particularly important in societies where people are trained to defer to alleged experts.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Important, Experts

  Source: libcom.org

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• We have to find a way of understanding how one category of sex can be "assigned" from both and another sense of sex can lead us to resist and reject that sex assignment. How do we understand that second sense of sex? It is not the same as the first - it is not an assignment that others give us. But maybe it is an assignment we give ourselves? If so, do we not need a world of others, linguistic practices, social institutions, and political imaginaries in order to move forward to claim precisely those categories we require, and to reject those that work against us?

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Moving, Order

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens to our bodies, sexism can be reversed. It's the understanding that it's not inevitable. I think that is crucial.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Thinking, Body

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.

  Miguel

  Growing Up, Thinking, Diversity

  Source: us.napster.com

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• Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Dots, Luther

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Truth stands for Taking Real Understanding To Heart.

  Gary Busey

  Real, Heart

  Source: www.clydefitchreport.com

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• [Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.

  Elie Wiesel

  Two, Years, People

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• Important element is deeply understanding our curriculum. Most teachers know what they're going to cover this week or this term. Few of us can specify precisely what students should know, understand, and be able to do as a result of any particular learning experience or set of learning experiences. Without that specificity, alignment between content, assessment, and instruction is weak.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Assessment, Important

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other hand, some of our students need much more interaction with a wide variety of peers so they level of understanding deepens and so they are prepared to live in a world that is only going to get smaller.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Hands, Generations, Peers

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Deep Understanding, Needs

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• I set myself a rule before I actually write a tune to the lyrics, and the rule is that I've got to take the lyrics on to a level of understanding before I can actually write music to them. What I'm doing is interpretation. If I don't write the lyrics, therefore I must interpret them to the best of my ability. So my rule is that I must understand it, but I don't necessarily have to accept.

  James Dean Bradfield

  Writing, Tunes, Levels

  Source: www.thisisyesterday.com

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• When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling each other about our own suffering, without blame or condemnation. It takes maybe one, two, three weeks to do that. And if communication and understanding are possible, negotiation will be easier. So if I am to organize a peace negotiation, I will organize it in that way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Communication, Two, Eating Together

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Practice, Suffering

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give me a call.

  John Krasinski

  Daughter, Giving, Enough

  Source: www.elle.com

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• James Baldwin had an unrivaled understanding of politics and history and, above all, the human condition. His prose is laser sharp. His onslaught is massive and leaves no room for response. Every sentence is an immediate cocked grenade. You pick it up, then realize that it is too late. It just blows up in your face. And yet he still managed to stay human, tender, accessible.

  Raoul Peck

  Blow, Lasers, Rooms

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called "spiritual," by comparing the meaning of what is addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being frequently found in the same passage by him who is capable of comprehending it.

  Origen

  Spiritual, Mind, Scripture

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I have done here on earth that was necessary to be done, no matter what my expression or application and now I continue to live here in the dimensions where I'm experiencing/ex­pressing a deeper level of understanding and awareness of my reason and purpose here on earth, which is wonderful and for which I am grateful for.

  Timothy Treadwell

  Grateful, Expression, Purpose

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• There are some audiences who are uncomfortable with the ambiguity, though. They want a film to chew their food for them, they want Hollywood endings that tie everything together in the end and answer all of the questions. They are usually people on one extreme of the political spectrum or other and they haven't been happy because the film is not polemical enough on their side. They aren't usually people who aren't interested in understanding points of view that they disagree with - they just want to attack their opponents - and I'm ok with them not liking the film.

  Marshall Curry

  People, Political, Together

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